{"id":3943,"date":"2016-08-15T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2016-08-15T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:45:50","slug":"as-states-ok-medical-marijuana-laws-doctors-struggle-with-knowledge-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3943","title":{"rendered":"As States OK Medical Marijuana Laws, Doctors Struggle With Knowledge Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Medical marijuana has been legal in Maine for almost 20 years. But Farmington physician Jean Antonucci says she continues to feel unprepared when counseling sick patients about whether the drug could benefit them. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/as-states-ok-medical-marijuana-laws-doctors-struggle-with-knowledge-gap\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32909693&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ViyMaWmR81t1AD_fY8YocrP6nqUytwolX1d-a0SjDbFQyRXr8-pXGQPK3vfy4_R6QcDAsDxKmog8p6Nr8XBBptylGLQ&amp;_hsmi=32909693\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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